“Things aren't always what they seem, are they?”
― quote from The Anybodies
“You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.”
― quote from The Anybodies
“Fern’s eyes as “the unpleasant deformity.”
― quote from The Anybodies
“Fern’s hair was another source of embarrassment for the Drudgers.”
― quote from The Anybodies
“Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies!”
― Nevil Shute, quote from On the Beach
“He seemed very pleased with himself for surviving a near-death experience. I could practically hear him chanting to himself: I overcame. I conquered. I’m a man etc etc.”
― Colleen Houck, quote from Tiger's Curse
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from Orlando
“Sonnet 23
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burden of mine own love's might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, quote from The Bhagavad Gita
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